Kiba swaggered into the classroom with Akamaru perched on his head.
He casually found a seat and sat down.
"Starting today, I'm going to work hard to become Hokage."
As he watched his different classmates file in, his eyes shone brightly.
Pineapple head, broccoli head, Uchiha, yellow-haired girl, pink-haired girl, the girl with the white eyes...
Once I become Hokage, they'll all be my subordinates. I have to treat them well.
But before that, he took out his first-year textbook and began flipping through it.
Teacher Tonbo had said that wherever you sat, you had to do what belonged in that seat. Right now, he wasn't Hokage, just a student. Students should study hard until they became Hokage.
Teacher Tobitake Tonbo had also said that studying diligently was the only way to widen the gap and keep others from poaching opportunities.
Poaching opportunities was a term Teacher Tonbo had invented. Kiba thought it made perfect sense. If someone secretly studied and surpassed him, Kiba Inuzuka, then there would be no Hokage position for him, and all his hard work would be wasted.
So he had to study not only at home, but diligently in class as well.
Even Akamaru was influenced by him.
Because Teacher Tonbo had secretly told him that who said dogs were inferior to humans? As long as he studied hard and surpassed his master Kiba, then whenever he wanted Kiba to pet him, Kiba would pet him.
He read very seriously.
He was a genius dog, Kiba's capable assistant.
One boy and one dog began studying before all the students had even arrived and before the teacher had started class.
In the distance,
Shikamaru looked at the boy and dog studying with their books and rolled his eyes.
"They're studying before class even starts. This won't